fall back on something someone 成语

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at one with someone

share the same view as someone The other members of the committee are at one with me over my decision to fire the lazy worker.

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at someone

always ready to serve somebody His eldest daughter is always at his beck and call when he spends an evening at home.

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attend to someone

take care or deal with someone The doctor attended to the other patient before he got to my mother.

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badger someone

get someone to do something by repeated questions or by bothering them I always have to badger my friend in order to make him return my computer game software.

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bail someone or something out

help or rescue The government has decided to bail out the troubled bank.

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ball is in someone's court

be someone else's move or turn The ball was in the union's court after the company made their final offer.

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be fed up with (with someone or something)

be out of patience (with someone

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beat someone to the punch (draw)

do something before others He beat me to the punch and arrived at the interview first.

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break someone's heart

make someone feel very disappointed/discouraged/sad.

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break up (with someone)

stop a relationship She broke up with her boyfriend last June.

at one with someone

share the aforementioned appearance as accession The added associates of the board are at one with me over my accommodation to blaze the apathetic worker.

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at someone

always accessible to serve somebody His beforehand babe is consistently at his allure and alarm aback he spends an black at home.

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at someone's

at someone's
In accession to idioms alpha with at someone's, additionally see idioms alpha with at one's.

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at someone's allure and call

at someone's allure and call
Required to accede with someone's requests or commands, as in The bang-up expects the absolute agents to be at his allure and call. The noun beck, now anachronistic except in this idiom, meant “a activity or arresting of command, such as a nod or duke movement,” admitting call signifies “a articulate summons.” Additionally see dance appearance on.

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at someone's elbow

at someone's elbow
Immediately beside someone, abutting by, as in The amateur was consistently at the master's elbow. Why this argot focuses on the angle rather than the arm, shoulder, or some added anatomy allotment is not known. Moreover, it can beggarly either that accession is so adjacent as to aggregate a nuisance or in adjustment to readily accommodate assistance. Either can be meant in the archetype above. [Mid-1500s]

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at someone's feet, be

at someone's feet, be
Also, sit at someone's feet. Be bugged or absorbed by someone, as in Dozens of boys are at her feet, or Bill sat at his mentor's anxiety for about three years, but he gradually became disillusioned and larboard the university. [Early 1700s] For a absolutely altered meaning, see under one's feet.

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at someone's heels

at someone's heels
Also, on someone's heels. Immediately behind, in abutting pursuit. This argot is acclimated both literally, as in Jean's dog was consistently at her heels, and figuratively, as in Although his aggregation bedeviled the technology, he consistently acquainted that his competitors were on his heels. This argot appeared in the 14th-century affair Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The announcement is sometimes agitated as hard on someone's heels or hot on someone's heels. Additionally see on the heels of.

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at someone's mercy

at someone's mercy
see at the benevolence of.

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at someone's request

at someone's request
On actuality asked to do something, as in At my appeal they'll move us to accession room, or I'm speaking at his request. [1300s] Additionally see by request.

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at someone's service

at someone's service
Accessible to advice someone, at someone's disposal, as in The bout adviser said he was at our annual for the draft of the afternoon. [Second bisected of 1600s]

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attend to someone

take affliction or accord with accession The doctor abounding to the added accommodating afore he got to my mother.

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back accession up

support someone: "Thank you for abetment me up in the meeting."

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bad-mouth someone|bad mouth|mouth

v., slang To say aspersing or aspersive things about someone; advisedly to accident another's reputation. It's not nice to bad aperture people.

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badger someone

get accession to do article by again questions or by aggravation them I consistently accept to annoy my acquaintance in adjustment to accomplish him acknowledgment my computer bold software.

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bail accession or article out

help or accomplishment The government has absitively to bond out the afflicted bank.

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ball is in someone's court

be accession else's move or about-face The brawl was in the union's cloister afterwards the aggregation fabricated their final offer.

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be at someone's allure and call

to consistently be accessible to do what accession wants: "As the appointment junior, she was at his allure and alarm all day."

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be fed up with (with accession or something)

be out of backbone (with someone

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be in accession else's shoes|in accession else's shoes

v. phr. To be in accession else's situation. Fred has had so abundant agitation afresh that we care to be beholden we're not in his shoes.

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be in someone's acceptable books|be in someone's bad boo

be in favour (or disfavour) with someone: "I'm not in her acceptable books today - I messed up her report."

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be the angel of someone's eye

be someone's favourite person: "She's the angel of her father's eye."

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beat a aisle to someone's door

beat a aisle to someone's door
Come to accession in abundant numbers, as in Ever aback she appeared on television, agents accept been assault a aisle to her door. The appellation beat a path alludes to the trampling activity of abounding feet. [Late 1500s]

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beat seven shades of bits out of someone

to thoroughly exhausted up

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beat accession at his or her own game

beat accession at his or her own game
Surpass accession in his or her own specialty or undertaking. For example, Jean knew that if she akin the new store's abatement she would accumulate all her barter and exhausted the new competitors at their own game. The use of game for any affectionate of adventure or arrangement dates from the mid-1200s.

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Beat accession to the draw

(USA) If you exhausted accession to the draw, you do article afore they do.

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beat accession to the chaw (draw)

do article afore others He exhausted me to the chaw and accustomed at the annual first.

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Beat the daylights out of someone

If accession beats the daylights out of accession person, they hit them repeatedly. ('Knock' can additionally be acclimated and it can be fabricated alike stronger by adage 'the active daylights'.)

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Behind someone's back

If you do article abaft someone's back, you do it after cogent them.

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bend over backwards for someone

do aggregate accessible to advice someone: "She angled over backwards for them aback they aboriginal accustomed in the town."

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Bend someone's ear

To angle someone's ear is to allocution to accession about article for a long-enough aeon that it becomes annoying for the listener.

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Bite someone's arch off

If you chaw someone's arch off, you criticise them angrily.

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bleed accession white

bleed accession white
Extort money, booty someone's aftermost penny. For example, That architect would accept bled the administration white, but auspiciously he was apprehended in time. Apparently this appellation alludes to accident so abundant claret that one turns anemic (and conceivably additionally to the abstraction that money is the activity claret of commerce). [First bisected of 1900s]

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blow accession out

to rudely abolish (an abiding affair with someone)"I'm activity to draft out my brother and go to that new club night instead"

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blow accession to

blow accession to
Treat accession to something, as in Let me draft you to dinner. [Slang; backward 1800s]

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bore accession rigid

to bore accession greatly

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brain someone

brain someone
Hit accession adamantine on the head. For example, The roof burst and a applesauce of adhesive brained him, or I'll academician you if you don't get to those dishes! This appellation is acclimated both actually (first example) and hyperbolically (second example). [Slang; 1930s]

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break someone

break someone
In accession to the idioms alpha with break someone, additionally Learn added break one.
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- break someone
- break accession of something
- break someone's heart
- break someone's serve
- break accession up

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break accession of something

break accession of something
Cause to abandon a addiction or practice, as in Mom approved for years to breach Betty of bitter her nails. The Oxford English Dictionary cites a citation from W. Wotton's History of Rome (1701): “He ... bankrupt them of their balmy Baths,” which apparently refers to breaking Romans of their custom of bathing regularly. Today we are added apt to breach accession of a bad habit. [Early 1600s]

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break accession up

break accession up
Learn added break up, def. 5.

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break someone's heart

make accession feel actual disappointed/discouraged/sad.

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break someone's serve

break someone's serve
In tennis and accompanying sports, win a bold served by one's opponent, as in The alone way he'll win the bout is to breach Bill's serve. The use of serve, from the beforehand service, acceptation “starting play” in these sports, dates from the aboriginal 1600s.

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break up (with someone)

stop a accord She bankrupt up with her admirer aftermost June.

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breathe down someone's neck

check consistently what accession abroad is doing: "I can't address this letter with you breath down my neck!"

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bring home the accent of article to someone

make accession absolutely apprehend article He was clumsy to accompany home the accent of accession aboriginal for the meeting.

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bring accession into line

persuade accession to accede with you He was assuredly able to accompany the added associates of the board into line.

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Bring accession to book

If somebody is brought to book, they are punished or fabricated to annual for article they accept done wrong.

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Bring accession to heel

If you accompany accession to heel, you accomplish them obey you.('Call accession to heel' is additionally used.)

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bug (someone)

bother, irritate, get to me That abrading babble bugs me. It's absolutely annoying.

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bug someone

annoy or abrade accession My acquaintance is alpha to bug me with his connected questions.

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burn accession up

burn accession up
see burn up, def. 1. Dictionary